Object 2 VR

[SteveC]

Hi All,

Hope someone can help me with this. I've been asked to produce a
VR Panorama, but rather than the usual VR Pano of say a room my
client wants an Object type VR of the entire site/buildings, for use on
his website so his clients can pan around the site and highlight
different buildings for whatever information he wishes to show.

Has anybody here produced anything similar and if so what software
do you recommend, the one I've come across is Object2VR but are there
any other options.

Also what is the process in max for producing an image that can be used
for an Object VR, for normal VR's I'd use spherical camera etc.

Many thanks for any help offered.

Steve

[rfellers]

I've used Object2VR and it works well. A different approach would be an actual model you can orbit around. All the client needs is a browser with WebGL (WebGL is supported on firefox, chrome, latest IE, IOS. I've been looking at sketchfab and verold to do this. Obviously you have to dumb the model down a bit (bake lighting and textures and keep a relatively low poly count), but I think it is a 'lighter' solution than all the rendered images that have to be generated for an object VR.

Ryan

[voltron7]

I recently did a virtual tour using pano2vr, and the client was very pleased. You can make several panoramas at different locations of the site, then the tour lets you link them all together in one tour. Output in many options from swf, to ipod/ipad/iphone/tablet, or html5.

[SteveC]

Thanks for the replies, Sketchfab looks exactly like what my client is after but I don't think you can use
hot spots. What he's after is a 3D low poly aerial view of the site (a public school) so parents and other
website users can pan around the model (as though it was a 3D map) and highlight the different buildings.

I did suggest a virtual tour with panos in different locations but the client is adamant that he wants parents
to get an overall aerial view of the entire School so I'm stuck with and Object type pano, he says a 360 degree
fly around won't cut it, which is right